From Laura Rogan, Sevenoaks, Kent, UK. My first letter ever to a newspaper but I felt moved to write as David Pilling gave us an entertaining and inspiring interview with Peter Piot, someone I am ...

He travels all over the world with "Jolly Phonics", a system for teaching literacy through synthetic phonics, using the 42-letter sounds of the English language rather than the alphabet.

Mr. Jolly promised to give teachers in Ghana an initial training in the teaching of Jolly Phonics free. Jolly Phonics is a teaching method that helps children to learn through play, songs and actions.